Brigadoon
English
Etymology
After the village in a 1947 musical of the same name, written by Alan Jay Lerner. That village appears for only one day every hundred years.
Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -uːn
Noun
Brigadoon (plural Brigadoons)
- A place that seems magically transient.
- 1988, Cruise Travel magazine (volume 10, number 1, July 1988, p.46)
- A mile walk took us into Mountshannon, a sort of Brigadoon, so quiet in the warm sun we thought it deserted.
- 2003, George Howe Colt, The big house: a century in the life of an American summer home
- But low tide allowed us to walk on tiptoes along an underwater sandbar, and explore the tide pools, miniature maritime Brigadoons in which we'd find crabs...
- 1988, Cruise Travel magazine (volume 10, number 1, July 1988, p.46)